Bible Verses About Ostriches: General references

The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.

She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.

For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.

When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.

But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there:

And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.

The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and the ostriches: because I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen.

Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn out the breast, they have given suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert.